This post is to underline the existence of Synth Magic's Kontakt 5 powered instrument "Sid Vicious". For an instrument created from a Commodore 64, C64 synthesizers and a personally designed C64 synth by the developer, I expected mostly grit and chip tunes, arcade stuff, but from the first patch, I was caught by surprise with awesome, inspirational sounds that make this reasonably sized library under 400 mb, a real treasure, suited for many genres.

The simple one panel interface offers enough possibilities with the usual basic settings to generously transform or adjust the sound. There is also a useful drop down waveform menu to further explore sonorities. The gui design is perfect.

Now I know why Sid Vicious used a C64 sound sampler! If you are familiar with the developers at Synth Magic and their products, this Kontakt 5 library "Sid Vicious" is in line with the quality of their other synthesizer exploration instruments. For all these reasons I give it a solid 10 on 10. Here included is a link to the page at Synth Magic featuring "Sid Vicious":http://www.synthmagic.co.uk/sid.htm

it's me again. i finally installed Kontakt and loaded this up to play. I am so impressed. A very specific type of sound, but perfect for my needs. I feel like I got an awesome new synth for $7. thanks again, I'll check out the rest of their stuff.